Laureate

Tasuku Honjo

Born 1942 · Japan · Male

Awards

  1. 2016

    Kyoto Prize — Basic Sciences

    Biology

    Discovery of the Mechanism Responsible for the Functional Diversification of Antibodies, Immunoregulatory Molecules and Clinical Applications of PD-1

  2. 2018

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

    Biology

    for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation